Telmo, Block time and Bruno's comp can only tell us how a set fixed static sequence of events could be perceived by some observer as a fixed static sequence of events. It simply CANNOT tell us how time moves ALONG that sequence.
The fact that time flows, that things change, is a fundamental EMPIRICAL OBSERVATION. It is not some intuitive illusion. It is the basic measurable observation of our existence and it never ceases from birth to death. It simply cannot be disregarded as some sort of survival mechanism. In fact if block time were actually real survival mechanisms would not be needed because the future is already written deterministically contrary to QM and in violation of all sorts of physical laws. If you think block time exists then where does that entire block come from? Did it create itself? Sequentially or all at once? Did something outside of it create it? What? How? Was it created causally in time? Or did it just magically appear like some kind of miracle? The believers in block time have an unfortunate habit of not thinking through the implications of their crazy theory..... Again, the best way I can say it is that your mouth has to move plenty to tell me it isn't moving! Best, Edgar On Friday, January 31, 2014 8:08:32 AM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: > > Hi Edgar, > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Liz, > > > > Your mouth sure has to move a lot to tell us it's not moving! > > > > The problem is not that static equations DESCRIBE aspects of reality. > The > > problem is that you are denying the flow of time. > > Why is this a problem? How can you know for sure that there is a flow > of time? Block universe hypothesis can explain how time would appear > to flow for each observer. This doesn't prove that block universe > hypothesis are correct, but they cannot be dismissed that easily > either. > > Now you could argue that this is counter-intuitive, but I would remind > you that nature doesn't care. Our intuition is just a bunch of > heuristics evolved to deal with a very narrow set of survival > scenarios. > > > For equations to compute (not just describe) reality, there must be > active > > processor cycles. There is simply NO way around that... > > I wonder. > > Telmo. > > > Edgar > > > > > > > > On Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:24:48 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > >> > >> Why do some people have such a problem with "how change can emerge from > >> something static" ? It's as simple as F = ma - a static equation > describing > >> something changing. Change is by definition things being different at > >> different times. If you map out all the times involved as a dimension, > you > >> will naturally get a "static" universe, just as putting together all > the > >> moments making up a movie gives you a reel of film - but only from a > "God's > >> eye perspective". This is the perspective science gives us, the > perspective > >> given by using equations and models and maps to describe reality; it > isn't > >> the world of everyday experience, which (at best) views those equations > and > >> so on from within (assuming for a moment they are so accurate as to be > >> isomorphic to reality). > >> > >> Obtaining change from the static view used by science is a non-problem, > >> and has been since Newton published his Principia. > >> > >> There are problems with comp, of course, like the "white rabbit" > problem. > >> Does anyone have any new views on the real problems, rather than > worrying > >> about straw men? > >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Everything List" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]<javascript:>. > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
